From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 05:11:00 EST
As far as I am aware, there are no specific dates for hardware support: you
pay some money and you get support. However, generally older machines cost
more so your h/w support costs will continue to rise. (It's one of the
things IBM - and other manufacturers - use to drive hardware sales.)
You might find that things get difficult when there is no supported OS that
will run on the machine. i.e. End of support for 5.1. If you've got
unusual equipment there may be a problem with spare parts eventually -
obviously they're not being made any more - but the engineers usually
salvage parts from old servers when they're decommissioned.
For accurate information you'll have to speak to IBM.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmu@OERAG.DE [mailto:fmu@OERAG.DE]
> Sent: 08 December 2003 17:55
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: how long support for mca node?
>
>
> Hi *,
>
> I need an information, how long I receive still support for
> the hardware
> from a mca-node (120MHz). I know, the node runs on AIX 5.1 and this
> AIX-Version is supportet still april-2006. But what is with
> the hardware?
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